Refining Solr searches, getting exact matches?

Afternoon chaps,

Right, I'm constructing a fairly complex (to me anyway) search system for a website using Solr, although this question is quite simple I think...

I have two search criteria, location and type. I want to return results that are exact matches to type (letter to letter, no exceptions), and like location.

My current search query is as follows

../select/?q=location:N1 type:blue&rows=100&fl=*,score&debugQuery=true

This firstly returns all the type blue's that match N1, but then returns any type that matches N1,开发者_开发技巧 which is opposite to what I'm after. Both fields are set as textgen in the Solr schema.

Any pointers?

Cheers gang

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By default, Solr uses the OR operator to combine the query terms. If you only want results with location:N1 AND type:blue instead of location:N1 OR type:blue, you'll need to change the operator. The simplest way to change this is by adding an additional parameter q.op=AND to the URL when querying:

../select/?q=location:N1 type:blue&rows=100&fl=*,score&debugQuery=true&q.op=AND

You can also change this for all queries by editing your schema.xml file; look for

<solrQueryParser defaultOperator="OR"/>

and change it to

<solrQueryParser defaultOperator="AND"/>

You might also want to change the field-type of your type field to something that is not tokenized, string for example. This will ensure that the match on that field is exact.

<field name="type" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>

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If you only want to have the "type" clause to be mandatory, you can keep the OR as the default operator and use the encoded '+' sign in front of the "type" clause:

./select/?q=location:N1 %2Btype:blue&rows=100&fl=*,score&debugQuery=true